Regulating head and sluice gate



July 2, 1929. I F.NEWELL REGULATING HEAD AND SLUICEGATE Filed May 9, 1928 INVENTOR. FRED ,NEWELL ATTORNEY.

Patented July 2, 1929.

UITED STA'lllilS,

PATENT UFFlCE.

FRED NE'WELL, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

BEGULATI'NG HEAD AND SL'UICE GATE.

Application filed May 9, 1928, Serial No. 276,366, and in Canada June 11, 192?.

My invention relates to regulating head and sluice gates.

In accordance with my invention, I provide a regulating head or sluice gate, arranged to travel in engagement with trains o'tf rollers, arranged near the vertical edges of the same. lhese trains of rollers are automatically raised and lowered with the gate to retain a proper elevation with relation thereto. The trains of rollers are mounted upon carriages including side men'ibers, and these side members have slidable interlocking engagen'ient with the tracks upon which the rollers travel. Slide members may also have slidable interlocking engagement with portions of the gate. lly this means, the train of rollers, and also the gate, may be properly guided during their travel, and the train of? rollers will not be moved or sprung out oil place due to the prr-issure oil the water or ice.

lo. the acconiipanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts tl'iroughout the same,

Fig-u re 1 is a plan view of a regulating head and sluice gate embodying my invention,

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2 of Figure 1,

,liigure 3 is a horizontal section taken on line 33 oi? Figure 2,

Figure 1 is a similar horizontal section taken through a moditied term of the invention, and,

Figure 5 is a similar view through a fur ther modified term of the invention.

lln the drawings, wherein tlior the purpose of illustration, is shown a preferred ernbodiment of my invention, the numeral designates a pier or abutment, having the usual opening 11, for the flow ot the water; This pier is provided upon opposite sides of the opening 11 with vertical channels or recesses 12, as hown.

Arranged within these channels are vertical tracl; structures, each of which, as shown more clearly in Figure 3, embodies a channel iron 13, embed (led in the concrete of the pier. Arranged rearwardly ot the channel iron is an fit-beam 14:, welded or otherwise rigidly attached, to the channel iron, and also embedded in the concrete. The track structure. embodies a tread, which is T-shaped in cross section. and may be formed of an outer strip or plate 15, and an inner strip or plate 16, which are welded or otherwise rigidly secured together. The strip or plate 16 is welded or rigidly secured to the channel iron 13. The assembled strips .15 and 16 produce a tread which T-shaped in cross section, at tor-ding guiding recesses 17'. l

'l. he numeral .18 designates a vertically uiovable sluice gate, raised and lowered. by any suitable means, as by a cable 19. Attached to each vertical edge of the sluice gate is a strip or plate 20, secured thereto by angle irons 21, or the like.

Angle irons 22 are rigidly attached to the plate 20, upon its opposite sides, and a track or boa ring eleu'ient 525i is attached to the angle irons E22 by means (it bolts 24, or the like, the track 23 having a notch receivin the ed go 011 the plate 20.

Operating upon. the down strean'i side 01!? the gate and between the track 23 and the track or tread element, including the element 15, at each vertical. edge of the gate, is a train of rollers 26, arranged between side plates 27, in-- clud ed in a carriage, and pivotally connected with these side plates by shaitts 28. The side plates have connection at their tops with a grooved pulley 29, engaged by a cable 30, one end of which is attached to the top of the pier l0 and the opposi to end of which is attached to the gate 18. It is thus seen that the gate 18 is raised and lowered, that the trains oil rollers will be raised and lowered. In order that the trains 01f rollers may be guided and retained in close relation to the track, including the element 15, the for ard ed ges oil? the plates 27 are bcn t at a right angle, all'ording flanges 30, engaging within recesses 17, behind the tread element or plate 15. In. l igure- 41, the side plates 27 are shown as made wider and their rear edges are bent .in ard l y aitljord ing flanges 31, engaging behind the tread element or track 25. In this construction, the trains of rollers are locked to the track including the element 15, and the gate 18 is locked. to the track 23.

In Figure 5, I have shown a tl'urthermodification of the invention, wherein the track structure embodies an fl-bearn 32, embedded in the concrete oi? the pier, with channel irons 33 upon opposite sides thereof. and welded to the I-beam. A. track or tread element 341: is welded to the rear edge of the I-heain 32, as shown. The same form of roller train is emiloyed, and the flanges engage behind the web oi: the lI-beam, as shown.

In View 01 the iiiregoing description, it will be seen that the trains oil. rollers are raised and lowered with the vertical. adjustmentof the gate. The sides or carriages connected with these trains of rollers have interlocking engagement with the tracks, and hence the trains of rollers will not be displaced due to the pressure of Water and ice. The gate is also interlocked with the carriages or sides of the trains of rollers.

It is to be understood that the forms of my invention, herewith shown and described, are to be taken as preferred examples of the same, an d that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention, or the scope of subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A pier having an opening for the passage or water, track structures extending vertically of the pier upon oppositeside-s of. the opening and embodying tread elements having recesses behind them, a vertically movable gate, vertical tread elementscarried by the gate at the ends thereof, vertically movable carriages arranged between the tread elements and having flanges to engage within the recesses of the first named tread elements and thereby engaged behind said tread elements, and trains of rollers mounted upon the carriages.

2. A pier having an opening for the passage of water, t 'acks having tread portions which are T-shaped in cross section and vertically arranged upon opposite sides of said opening, a vertically movable gate, vertical tread elements carried by the gate at the ends thereof. carriages arranged at the ends of the gate and having sides provided with inwardly bent flanges to engage behind the T-shaped tread portions, rollers mounted upon the carriages and. engaging between the tread portions, and means to raise and lower the gate and the carriage.

3. A pier having an opening for the passage of water, tracks having tread port ions which are T-shaped in cross section and vertically arranged upon opposite sides of said opening, a vertically movable gate, vertical tread elements carried by the gate at the ends thereof. carriages arranged at the ends of the gate and provided upon their forward and rear edges with inwardly bent flanges to engage behind the two sets of tread elements, rollers mounted upon the carriages and arranged between FRED NEWELL. 

